Twenty years later, I have found a new layer of meaning in what I write. With the modern rise of fascistic tendencies and authoritarian governments, the challenges of a previous generation take on an unusually imperative urgency. Unchecked aggression and appeasement of dictators have become much more than historical curiosities from a bygone era. They are at our front door. Nazis brazenly march in our streets. The contributions made to victory in the Second World War by Black people, Native Americans, and women are being erased from the public record. All this is happening as I write, and I
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